LEAF Open Farm Sun­day 2020 goes ONLINE

Organ­is­ers of LEAF Open Farm Sun­day 2020 announce this year’s event in Sep­tem­ber will go online.

When lock­down was enforced in March, we took the dif­fi­cult deci­sion to post­pone LEAF Open Farm Sun­day from 7^th June to 20^th September. 

We have con­sult­ed wide­ly with our host farm­ers, spon­sors and sup­port­ers and whilst there is the dri­ve and enthu­si­asm to share our farm­ing sto­ry with the pub­lic, there con­tin­ues to be many con­cerns regard­ing host­ing on-farm vis­its this year due to the con­tin­u­ing COVID-19 situation. 

After much care­ful con­sid­er­a­tion, tak­ing into account farmer feed­back and using oth­er sim­i­lar events and shows as guid­ance, we have tak­en the deci­sion to can­cel all face to face on-farm LEAF Open Farm Sun­day events this Sep­tem­ber. We are all look­ing for­ward to wel­com­ing the pub­lic back on farm next year on Sun­day 13^th June 2021.

Fol­low­ing the huge suc­cess of LEAF Online Farm Sun­day this June, we are mak­ing plans to pro­mote more vir­tu­al farm tours dur­ing the week­end of 20^th Sep­tem­ber 2020. This will be an excit­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty to show­case the tail end of har­vest, drilling and autumn calv­ing along­side many oth­er aspects of farm life which the pub­lic may nev­er get the chance to see. More details to fol­low soon.

We would like to thank our LOFS spon­sors for their under­stand­ing and con­tin­ued sup­port to show­case the best of British farm­ing to the pub­lic across the UK and fur­ther afield. Our 2020 LOFS spon­sors are: AHDB, Arla Foods, Asda, BASF, Co-op, Defra, Farm­ers Week­ly, Fron­tier Agri­cul­ture, John Deere, Kel­log­gs, LEAF Mar­que, NFU, Sains­burys, Tesco and Waitrose.

Car­o­line Drum­mond, LEAF Chief Executive

LEAF (Link­ing Envi­ron­ment And Farming)

For fur­ther infor­ma­tion and images please con­tact Jane Craigie at Jane Craigie Mar­ket­ing on jane@​janecraigie.​com or 07795278767.

Editor’s notes:

• LEAF Open Farm Sun­day is man­aged by LEAF (Link­ing Envi­ron­ment And Farm­ing). LEAF is the lead­ing organ­i­sa­tion deliv­er­ing more sus­tain­able food and farm­ing. It works with farm­ers, the food indus­try, sci­en­tists and con­sumers to inspire and enable sus­tain­able farm­ing that is pros­per­ous, enrich­es the envi­ron­ment and engages local com­mu­ni­ties. LEAF set up and has man­aged Open Farm Sun­day since it began in 2006. (LEAF is a reg­is­tered char­i­ty no: 1045781) 
• LEAF Open Farm Sun­day offers a chance for all farm­ers to open their gates and wel­come peo­ple onto their farms to dis­cov­er the world of farm­ing. Events can be as sim­ple as a farm walk for a small group to ful­ly fledged events for over 1000 peo­ple. LEAF offers advice and sup­port for all types of event. 
• LEAF Open Farm Sun­day 2021 will take place on 13^th June 2021 
• Spon­sors of LEAF Open Farm Sun­day include: AHDB, Arla Foods, Asda, BASF, Co-op, Defra, Farm­ers Week­ly, Fron­tier Agri­cul­ture, John Deere, Kel­log­gs, LEAF Mar­que, NFU, Sains­burys, Tesco and Waitrose. 

LEAF is a reg­is­tered char­i­ty (No. 1045781) and a com­pa­ny lim­it­ed by guar­an­tee reg­is­tered in Eng­land (No. 3035047).